US Ambassador to the UN: Trump bets on diplomacy with Iran, but with a limited deadline

Waltz did not provide further details on the nature of the talks, but fighting between Iran and the United States saw a relative lull at the start of the week.

The U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) halted airstrikes after 13 nights of escalating strikes, and no reports emerged at the beginning of the week of Iranian attacks on Arab Gulf states.

A senior official in the Trump administration was asked yesterday, Saturday, about this lull, stating that the president “has always been clear in his preference for diplomacy, but he made it clear to Iran what would happen if it did not sit down at the negotiating table in earnest.”